Nominations Sought for Who's Who in Universities, Colleges
The Department of Campus Activities is accepting nominations
for the 1999-2000 Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges.
The University will recommend 100 undergraduate and graduate
students to the Who's Who oganization for national recognition.
The selection committee will use the following criteria:

Scholastic achievement

Student organization leadership and participation

Campus and community volunteering

For undergraduate students, completion of 75 undergraduate
credits by August 1999

For graduate students, completion of 12 graduate credits
by August 1999

Nomination forms have been mailed to members of the University
community. To nominate a student, complete and return the nomination
form by Tuesday, October 12, to: Who's Who Selection Committee,
Student Union Room 201, U-3008. Nominations, giving your own
name, title, department, campus address and phone number, and
e-mail address, together with your nominee's name, local address,
phone number and e-mail address, may also be sent by e-mail
to:
janiceg@ops.saup.uconn.edu. Students who are nominated will
be asked to complete an application by November 10 outlining their
achievements.

Give the Gift of Life During October Blood Drive
The Center for Community Outreach is seeking donors for the
American Red Cross campus blood drive scheduled for the week
beginning October 18. The drive will be held at the African American
Cultural Center during the following hours:

Monday, October 18 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 19 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 20 11 a.m.-6:45 p.m.

Thursday, October 21 11 a.m.-6:45 p.m.

Friday, October 22 8 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

To make an appointment to donate blood by using the online appointment
card at
http://www.volunteer.uconn.edu
and clicking on the link
to the blood drive, or by calling (800) 448-3543. Although not
everyone is able to donate, for medical or other reasons, if
you are eligible please take an hour of your time to give the
gift of life. If you would like to volunteer to work at the
blood drive, contact the American Red Cross office on campus
at (860) 427-7560.

Illustration Contest Announced
A prize of $500 will be awarded to a student in illustration
for the best illustration of children's literature. The prize,
sponsored by Susan Salzman Raab, co-owner of Raab Associates,
a children's book marketing agency, will be awarded during the
annual Connecticut Children's Bookfair in November.

For the 1999/2000 prize, Raab, Terri J. Goldich, curator for
the Northeast Children's Literature Collection at the Thomas
J. Dodd Research Center, and Cora Lynn Deibler, an assistant
professor of illustration in the School of Fine Arts, will serve
as the judging committee. All students wishing to submit entries
for this year's prize will illustrate the same text, a poem
by Elizabeth Corbett, "Three Wise Old Women."

Beginning with the 2000/2001 academic year, the amount of the
prize will be increased to $600 and the contest will be expanded
to include original writing entries, chosen from submissions
from the children's literature class given in the English Department.
The judging committee will be expanded to include appropriate
members of the English Department. Half of the prize will be
awarded to the student submitting the best story or poem in
the genre, and the other half will go to the student who best
illustrates that work. The winning entries will be placed on
exhibit in the Dodd Center during the Bookfair, and will be
retained in the Archives & Special Collections.

Raab graduated from UConn in 1980 with a degree in English.
She has experience in the retail book business and has worked
at Bantam, Dell, and Scholastic. She began her own agency in
1986.